Pastor's Blog
Growing up in Rochester, NY, our youth group always went on summer mission trips to the SAME place: Cow Creek, KY. We supported the Presbyterian Church there, and the pastor, Joe Powlas. Joe served three churches in Appalachia: Cow Creek, Indian Creek, and Booneville. It was near Shoulderblade, KY, if that helps… :)
One year we had a mission project called, “A Jeep for Joe.” We got a red jeep for Pastor Joe so that he could safely get to his three churches.
It was a long drive to Cow Creek, and so we would stop overnight and stay at a church. Guess which church we stayed at one summer? Worthington Presbyterian Church! God was giving me a “sneak peek” of where God would one day call me!
I also think God was teaching me about the beauty and importance of mission!
WPC showed radical hospitality by letting our youth group stay overnight. My home church was doing important things to help our brothers and sisters in Christ in Cow Creek. And the youth group from Cow Creek would come on a mission trip to Rochester, NY —because they had love and gifts to share, too.
“In Christ’s love, we connect, serve and transform.” I certainly experienced that on those mission trips. And so did my friends. I hope we all do—all ages—this Sunday at Missionpalooza (11am in Fellowship Hall) and in all of the mission opportunities to come.
The Apostle Paul writes: “For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.” Thanks be to God! Amen!
One year we had a mission project called, “A Jeep for Joe.” We got a red jeep for Pastor Joe so that he could safely get to his three churches.
It was a long drive to Cow Creek, and so we would stop overnight and stay at a church. Guess which church we stayed at one summer? Worthington Presbyterian Church! God was giving me a “sneak peek” of where God would one day call me!
I also think God was teaching me about the beauty and importance of mission!
WPC showed radical hospitality by letting our youth group stay overnight. My home church was doing important things to help our brothers and sisters in Christ in Cow Creek. And the youth group from Cow Creek would come on a mission trip to Rochester, NY —because they had love and gifts to share, too.
“In Christ’s love, we connect, serve and transform.” I certainly experienced that on those mission trips. And so did my friends. I hope we all do—all ages—this Sunday at Missionpalooza (11am in Fellowship Hall) and in all of the mission opportunities to come.
The Apostle Paul writes: “For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.” Thanks be to God! Amen!
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